Hickleton Main Colliery was a coal mine in

Thurnscoe Thurnscoe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Dearne North ward of the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, and along with Goldthorpe and Bolton upon Dearne is part o ...

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, England from 1892 to 1988. In 1933 it employed 2,560 people underground and 500 on the surface. The coal mine's union lodge was the 400th recipient of the

Order of Industrial Heroism The Order of Industrial Heroism was a private civil award given in the United Kingdom by the ''Daily Herald (UK newspaper), Daily Herald'' newspaper to honour examples of heroism carried out by ordinary workers. Many of the 440 awards were posth ...

. On 9 February 1944,

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and

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visited the colliery and thanked the miners for their war effort during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. In 2006 a black granite memorial was erected in Thurnscoe cemetery bearing the names of the 161 miners who died at the pit over the years. The site of the colliery now forms

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in Thurnscoe.

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Hickleton Main Colliery Memorial
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